Mixels 2014

[agp548]

Available on lego shop at home now. In fact alot of new sets are now available.

[Quacs]

As the funky straight up builds goes for these little weirdos, I am not too interested. However, I do like the varying assortment of their equally weird parts so I will be buying them up here and there soon as I can find any. There really isn't anything to compare them with so I have no idea about actual investment other than maybe selling the individual parts on BrickLink. Admitedly, there are a couple of these buggers I do like though. Haha.

TOK, I would have thought these guys would have been right up your alley. I would say buy 1-2 and then make a decision. I bought two for my kids yesterday (Flain and Volectro) and they even surprised me - they're pretty well done for small builds. Plus at $5, the price point is good. Not sure if they're investable at MSRP, but time will tell.

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[krayzie]

I was not aware that there were 9 of these. I saw them at the lego store last week and my daughter didn't care for them. She wanted the $5 gold lego brick keychain...

[TheOrcKing]

TOK, I would have thought these guys would have been right up your alley. I would say buy 1-2 and then make a decision. I bought two for my kids yesterday (Flain and Volectro) and they even surprised me - they're pretty well done for small builds. Plus at $5, the price point is good. Not sure if they're investable at MSRP, but time will tell.

Some of them such as Zorch are but not all. Either way, I do like the parts themselves all the same and more than likely planning to buy everything. My favorites as is would be the ones that give me a good laugh. :)

[TheOrcKing]

Well, I was at Target earlier today in the Lego aisle and overheard a mother with her son talking about these guys. I remember she asked him "You see any of those Mixel characters?". Unfortunately, they were not in stock yet which I believe will happen by March perhaps. Anywho, I stumbled across these animated shorts on Cartoon Network's Youtube channel. I had no idea they were even uploaded but here you go.

 

Coconapple

Cookironi

Hot Lava Shower

Oh, one last thing. It looks like they finally posted a complete working version of the series trailer. Some reason the other froze around twenty seconds in.

 

[wholovesboo]

I just saw these today. And i couldn't bring myself to buy any (they come in those Friends collectible foil bags...or whatever it is that brickset calls them since there's no actual foil involved).

I just don't get them. C'mon Lego, what's the secret??????

[bramp]

What are your thoughts?

http://www.lego.com/nl-nl/mixels/

 

Btw: with these polybags, do you know what you buy? Or is it a surprise like with the minifigs bags?

 

[imirish11]

Each character has its own packaging/set#, and are easily identifiable. Correct me if I'm wrong, but each case has the same number of each character, so scarcity will only be determined by demand.

[bramp]

Is this the same as minifigs polybags?

Does this mean, that each box of polybags has the same content?

And could I just go to a store and get all highly sought characters form a box?

[mcortez]

Yes, the contents of each poly are predetermined and can easily be identified.  I was able to sort through them and got one complete set to list on ebay as a set, since I had them in-hand before they were available at LEGO.com  -- haven't had any nibbles yet on that listing.

 

The box I pulled them from did not seem to have an equal number of all the sets, but it's possible someone else had already grabbed a couple.

[Guest brickcrazyhouse]

http://community.brickpicker.com/gallery/image/1252-photo/

 

I choose you ... mixelu?

 

for shixel my nixel

[cobi]

These are in the Spring Lego catalog. 9 different characters for $4.99/ea.

[cobi]

Hope this works.  Here is a pic of the catalog page

[supergman]

I got a bunch of these for my kids; love 'em.

[marcandre]

Just ran across this story. I have not paid any attention to these mixels. If they get popular it could be a nice xmas flip. Won't be buying any now but maybe worth watching. 

 

http://kotaku.com/these-mixed-up-little-lego-creatures-are-just-the-best-1549956557

[DoNotInsertIntoMouth]

Yeah I think they look pretty good. Should be fairly popular.

[seapotato]

i have seen these everywhere in my area. wonder if they will sell out at xmas time?

[segreto]

I just posted on there an hour ago.  I think they all look like things I accidentally created with the left over bricks I have collected over the years.  I like them, and I don't like them.  I like the idea and the ball joints, I don't like the messiness. I guess what will solidify an opinion, would be if I actually get a few, and I think that is exactly what you are telling me to do, so I will have to go buy some and maybe get a Lego City Police Station, too.  That is what you are saying, no?

[Quacs]

I just posted on there an hour ago.  I think they all look like things I accidentally created with the left over bricks I have collected over the years.  I like them, and I don't like them.  I like the idea and the ball joints, I don't like the messiness. I guess what will solidify an opinion, would be if I actually get a few, and I think that is exactly what you are telling me to do, so I will have to go buy some and maybe get a Lego City Police Station, too.  That is what you are saying, no?

That is exactly what I am saying - and don't forget the City Police Station :)

[Blackjack]

I might buy a copy of each of the first series and just see what happens to them.

[TheOrcKing]

The cartoon these are taken from or starring in (however that was supposed to go) is mind-numbingly painful to watch as though my brain found itself lodged into a void less vacuum. As for the character builds themselves go, they are rather amusing to look upon. Dare I say good for a laugh or two. Haha. Befitting these critters with their oddball attitudes is their equally unique selection of parts in varying colors which for me is a great reason to buy them all up other than their low price that makes obtaining a complete series rather affordable and reasonable. A complete series of nine costs $44.91 with each including roughly fifty pieces so you end up with about 450 parts give or take which includes plenty of the new small ball & socket joints.

I see no problems with myself buying a couple extras of certain characters with particularly rare pieces in the future as a sort of random impulse buy since I feel as though I get more from these than the typical polybag honestly although I do love my minifigures. Anyway, I am looking very forward to the later series like number three.

[segreto]

I picked up three:  Zaptor, Shuff and Zorch.  Shuff is pretty solid and has some nice rock pieces.  The other two are kinda funky and have some nice rare 'flame' and 'lightening' pieces.  I was really impressed with the tiny ball and sockets.  They are pretty solid and can manage some awkward poses.  Don't know if I will collect em all, but I will get a few more.  No police station at KMart, sadly.

[TheOrcKing]

Some stop motion clips for these wacky weirdos.

 

Infernites MAX!

Cragsters MAX!

Electroids MAX!

And this clip is kind of like a nice slideshow of all the Mixels from Series 1-3 plus the many combinations of such.

 

[Noodlenut]

The official images of the series 2 mixels have been revealed.  http://brickset.com/sets/theme-Mixels/subtheme-Series-2

 

Slumbo:

 

 

Lunk:

 

Flurr:

 

Chomly (You have to love that cookie-mosterish expression):

 

Gobba:

 

Jawg:

 

Kraw:

 

Tentro:

 

Balk:

[TheOrcKing]

The official images of the series 2 mixels have been revealed.

Took Lego long enough to 'officially' release images for Series 2 as we already had pics of Series 2 and 3 back in February. Course we are nearing the start of May when these are expected for release I believe. Well, soon it shall be time to snag up another collection of these critters. :shifty: